Guerilla Opera

Host and ensemble pianist Tae Kim sits down with Tláloc Lopez-Watermann to chat about the role of "light" in the 2013 world premiere Guerilla opera Giver of Light.  Visit guerillaopera.org/podcast for more.

Host and ensemble pianist Tae Kim sits down with Nicholas O’Leary to chat about the role of a stage director, the making of Chrononhotonthologos, as well as his interesting and varies interactive theater games and projects that are right on the horizon! Visit guerillaopera.org/podcast for a full transcription.

Ensemble pianist Tae Kim sits down with Aliana de la Guardia & Julia Noulin-Mérat, Co-Artistic Directors of Guerilla Opera to unpack Dreamwalker and chat about the Guerilla Underground and other upcoming events and artistic content!

Ensemble pianist Tae Kim sits down with composer and librettist Caroline Louise Miller to chat about her upcoming collaboration, a live performance AND short film of “Ofelia’s Life Dream”, with Guerilla Opera and Laine Rettmer! Support this podcast on Patreon. Join our Agents Provocateurs monthly memberships to help create experiences infused with new music, theater and imagination!

Ensemble pianist Tae Kim sits down with composer and librettist Curtis K Hughes to reminise about Let’s Make a Sandwich, Say It Ain’t So, Joe!, and what he’s working on during COVID-19!

Ensemble pianist Tae Kim sits down with Theater Artist, Writer, Director, Animator Deniz Khateri to talk about her work in shadow puppetry, libretto writing inspired by Iranian women!

Ensemble pianist Tae Kim sits down with composer Hannah Lash to talk about her opera "Beowulf." They talk libretto, instrumentation, piano reduction and more!

In this inaugural episode, Keturah speaks with Brenda Huggins, the Director of Engagement Programs at Guerilla Opera in Boston.  They discuss Guerilla Opera's upcoming Libretto Writing Workshop. Aristotle's Elements of Drama, and the missing link of dramaturgy in opera development.

In June Guerilla Opera will revisit one of our favorite productions, the Heart of a Dog 2010 revival production directed by Copeland Woodruff. In anticipation of our watch party, ensemble pianist Tae Kim interviews composer Rudolf Rojahn and percussionist Mike Williams, both co-founding artists and former co-artistic directors of Guerilla Opera. Heart of a Dog was the first opera written for Guerilla Opera, premiered in 2007. The creative and innovative 2010 production took Guerilla Opera to the next level and put us on the map as not only a musically exceptional group, but also theatrically adventurous.

Aliana de la Guardia hosts and narrates this program presented by Guerilla Opera's All Stars. In celebration of National Poetry Month we’re featuring a selection of poetry and music paired together from Songs of Innocence by William Blake and from 44 Duets for Two Violins by Béla Bartók played by our ensemble member Lilit Hartunian.  Learn more at https://www.guerillaopera.org/all-stars. Transcripts (English/Spanish) If you enjoy this program join us to keep our artists working & bring you more music at a time when we need it the most! Help us bring you more by LIKING, SUBSCRIBING & FOLLOWING and please make a donation of any amount you're able at http://www.guerillaopera.org/support!

Nicholas Martinez narrates Guerilla Opera's audio introduction to "Emergence: A Haverhill Story" which features music from "Rumpelstiltskin" by Marti Epstein and describes "The Captivity of Hannah Duston" with music by Lansing McLoskey and libretto by Glen Nelson. To hear music from "The Captivity of Hannah Duston" you will have to come to the live show! Learn more at www.guerillaopera.org/events.    Nicholas uses a Braille tablet to read the scripts we send him. Ina YouTube interview he describes how it works and talks about technology that would be a game changer! https://youtu.be/p0YVe_DqVYk Download this transcript at https://www.dropbox.com/s/0yo2kaw3ajfcuom/2019-05%20Emergence-ProgramNarration-draft.pdf?dl=0   Download the text for the musical exerpts at https://www.dropbox.com/s/bwsdxa3nh7y8m9b/2019-05%20Emergence-ProgramText.pdf?dl=0 

Nicholas Martinez narrates Guerilla Opera's audio introduction to "Rumpelstiltskin" by Marti Epstein with libretto by Marti Epstein and Greg Smucker. Learn more at www.guerillaopera.org/events. Download this transcript at https://www.dropbox.com/s/xgdym3bkxpcsfzu/2019-02_Rumperlstiltskin_AudioNarration.pdf?dl=0  Download the libretto to this opera at https://www.guerillaopera.org/s/Rumpelstiltskin_libretto.pdf  Nicholas uses a Braille tablet to read the scripts we send him. Ina YouTube interview he describes how it works and talks about technology that would be a game changer! https://youtu.be/p0YVe_DqVYk

Nicholas Martinez narrates the program for Guerilla Opera's Emergence 1, a concert presentation featuring a first-listen to new music from Mischa Salkind-Pearl’s A Dead Body based on the short story by Anton Chekhov, libretto by Franny Zhang, as well as beloved revivals of Marti Epstein’s magical Rumpelstiltskin and Per Bloland’s dark and brilliant Pedr Solis with libretto by Paul Schick.“Emergence I” is for one night only on Wednesday, June 13, 2018, 8:00PM at OBERON, 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. Admission is $20.00 and tickets can be purchased now online at https://american-rep-live.herokuapp.com/shows-events/guerilla-opera-presents-emergence-i/, by phone at 617-547-8300 and at-the-door one hour before curtain at the OBERON.  Doenload this transcript at: http://guerillaopera.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/GuerillaOpera-Emergence1-ProgramNarration-FINAL.pdf Nicholas uses a Braille tablet to read the transcript. Here he is describing how it works and talking about another technology that would be a game changer! Here's the link to the YouTube Interview: https://youtu.be/p0YVe_DqVYk